Tethering necessarily means jailbreaking, right?

Correct. These are acts that proper lawyers like us would not condone. These country lawyers and their loose ethical standards. Really.

I don't believe in angering my benevolent fascist Apple overlords.

jailbreaking takes 1 minute

jailbreaking takes 1 minute

What are the disadvantages, if any (aside from your family being cursed by Jobs for a thousand years)?

I dont know if its the same with the itouch and the iphone but when you restart (full shutdown) your itouch after its been jailbroken, you have to have a computer to boot it up

also, no warranty if you brick it while jailbroken and can't take advantage of apple updates right away

I don't believe in angering my benevolent fascist Apple overlords.

Listen to Al. You wouldn't want to lower yourself to my level. Pay the $130 and $20/ month foe the 3G for those very few timews you will need it Really.

for me, running apps in the background made jailbreaking worth it

I dont know if its the same with the itouch and the iphone but when you restart (full shutdown) your itouch after its been jailbroken, you have to have a computer to boot it up

also, no warranty if you brick it while jailbroken and can't take advantage of apple updates right away

Not with the iPhone. That is not to say there aren't glitches every so often but nothing that is a big deal. If your iPhone has been upgraded to the latest software then jail breaking is not an option at this time. Once your warranty is up there are no issues. Jail breaking is completely reversible with a restore.

Being able to run apps in the background is a big deal for me. I would love that option with the iPad.

Wait, Mike, i thought your iPad was jailbroken?

no, his iphone is jailbroken

Ah, I see. Then how does the iPad "see" it? Also, how does it work with Shelly's pre?

They both act like wifi routers

I guess I didn't realize the Pre could be used for this purpose. So could I use my Verizon Eris with an unjailbroken iPad?

yup dinny, you can. Any wifi connection works.

Wait, Mike, i thought your iPad was jailbroken?

Just my iPhone. There is no jailbreak for the iPad yet. Dinny, the only way to tether with the iPad is for the iPad to think the other device is a wifi connection. With my MacBook I can do a USB tether or Bluetooth tether.

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fucking technology.

Not with the iPhone. That is not to say there aren't glitches every so often but nothing that is a big deal. If your iPhone has been upgraded to the latest software then jail breaking is not an option at this time. Once your warranty is up there are no issues. Jail breaking is completely reversible with a restore.

Being able to run apps in the background is a big deal for me. I would love that option with the iPad.

wait, so jailbreaking the iphone doesnt require a tethered start up? It doesnt require you to run blackra1n everytime you start up?

fucking technology.

Not so magical now, eh?

wait, so jailbreaking the iphone doesnt require a tethered start up? It doesnt require you to run blackra1n everytime you start up?

I'm pretty sure I used blackra1n for my jailbreak. My iPhone starts up after shut down like it did before the jailbreak.

wait, so jailbreaking the iphone doesnt require a tethered start up? It doesnt require you to run blackra1n everytime you start up?

I'm pretty sure I used blackra1n for my jailbreak. My iPhone starts up after shut down like it did before the jailbreak.

fucking technology.

Not so magical now, eh?

Or to invoke Gregory Benford's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law*

The phrase you were looking for was "insufficiently advanced" technology.

*Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

I'm pretty sure I used blackra1n for my jailbreak. My iPhone starts up after shut down like it did before the jailbreak.

wtf. I did something wrong then.

nah. I did it right. it seems that the itouch 3g cant have untethered jailbreak yet